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Hence this Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A dated 31-3-1981, as No. 223 at page 4.) 3 KARNATAKA ACT No. 40 OF 1976 (First Published in the Karnataka Gazette Extraordinary on the Twenty-first day of May, 1976) THE KARNATAKA SERVICE EXAMINATIONS ACT, 1976 (Received the assent of the Governor on the Nineteenth day of May, 1976) (As Amended by Act 25 of 1982) An Act to provide for service examinations and connected matters. WHEREAS the validity of departmental examinations for persons serving in connection with the affairs of the State was from time to time questioned; WHEREAS while in one set of decisions, courts had held that such examinations could be prescribed validly after obtaining the previous approval of the Central Government in pursuance of the proviso to section 115 (7) of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, in a later case, the Supreme court held that such previous approval can be assumed in terms of the Official Memorandum of the Central Government dated 27th March 1957; WHEREAS the divergent views resulted in uncertainty and confusion in the matter of promotions and reviews thereof; WHEREAS in order to set matters right, the Karnataka Civil Services (Service and Kannada Language Examinations) Rules, 1974 have been issued prescribing service examinations; WHEREAS in some cases on the basis of certain earlier court decisions retrospective promotions and payment of back salary ,etc., are being claimed and sought to be enforced; WHEREAS in the circumstances, it is not feasible, financially and otherwise also, to so promote and pay; BE it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-